You Disgust Me, Christie Tells Boehner over Aid

[naive]

Boehner is a vile, disgusting man, as we all know...Now members of his party are calling him out over his refusal to vote on the aid package for the victims of Sandy...

Way to go John!!

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/disgus...203732608.html

[Calamari]

The Koch brothers told them Sandy victims can rot and die, so the GOP follows. After all, they've got theirs.

[Balmerboh]

The Koch brothers told them Sandy victims can rot and die, so the GOP follows. After all, they've got theirs.

That almost made sense. .....No wait, I read it again. No, it didn't.

[Marshan Man]

They're taking out Christie's embrace of Obama during Sandy and the election on the people of NJ. What vile creatures...

[Calamari]

It's the Tea Party's petty revenge.

[overtaxed]

Other than fixing the infrastructure I don't see why the taxpayer should be paying. If you build your house on the beach, you better get good homeowners insurance.

[Sprightly]

It is filled with pork. Remove the pork; pass the bill. Simple.

[naive]

It is filled with pork. Remove the pork; pass the bill. Simple.

Like removing the funding for improving the electric grid or improving the hospitals generator capacity so we don't have to watch newborns on incubators being carried out in future storms?? That kind of silly pork?

Boehner has 60 billion dollars in aid he is now playing with...He likes to f with Americans, I think....

[Calamari]

It is filled with pork. Remove the pork; pass the bill. Simple.

You have it backwards. The pork was put in to gain Republican support for the bill.

[jessup270]

Whats all the fuss, NJ will get their money from the feds, it just did not happen last night.

[ms maggie]

Whats all the fuss, NJ will get their money from the feds, it just did not happen last night.

Kinda the point from my pov. Why oh why does Boehner insist on shooting himself in the foot?

[Calamari]

Revenge on NYers and other perceived liberals. He's been screaming and cursing like a little martinet at Reid in the hallways. Probably crying up a storm too.

[Sprightly]

You have it backwards. The pork was put in to gain Republican support for the bill.

I don't care how it got there -- get rid of it.

[Sprightly]

Like removing the funding for improving the electric grid or improving the hospitals generator capacity so we don't have to watch newborns on incubators being carried out in future storms?? That kind of silly pork?

Boehner has 60 billion dollars in aid he is now playing with...He likes to f with Americans, I think....

All pork. Everything that has nothing to do with disaster relief due to Sandy.

[Calamari]

I don't care how it got there -- get rid of it.

You have no authority. Feel free to stamp your feet if you want though, if it makes you feel better.

[Sprightly]

http://www.politisite.com/2013/01/02...relief-package

•$2 million to repair damage to the roofs of museums in Washington, D.C., while many in Hurricane Sandy’s path still have no roof over their own heads.

•$150 million for fisheries as far away from the storm’s path as Alaska.

•$125 million for the Department of Agriculture’s Emergency Watershed Protection program, which helps restore watersheds damaged by wildfires and drought.

•$20 million for a nationwide Water Resources Priorities Study.

•$15 million for NASA facilities, though NASA itself has called its damage from the hurricane ‘minimal.’

•$50 million in subsidies for tree planting on private properties.

•$336 million for taxpayer-supported AMTRAK without any detailed plan for how the money will be spent.

•$5.3 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers – more than the Corps’ annual budget – with no statement of priorities about how to spend the money.

•$12.9 billion for future disaster mitigation activities and studies, without identifying a single way to pay for it.

[Sprightly]

You have no authority. Feel free to stamp your feet if you want though, if it makes you feel better.

Democrats filled it with pork. Republicans filled it with pork. Whomever filled it with pork -- get rid of it.

[Sprightly]

You have no authority. Feel free to stamp your feet if you want though, if it makes you feel better.

I have every right to my opinion. Get rid of the pork and vote on the bill.

[soulflower]

It is filled with pork. Remove the pork; pass the bill. Simple.

To be fair, Christie makes a valid point. It's never been an issue before with disaster aid, why now?

NY and NJ send far more in tax revenue to the Federal government than all the southern and Midwest states combined...

[flyboy56]

Thanks tax payers!

— Rum tax: The bill extends by two years a $13.50 per proof-gallon tax on rum. The revenue from the tax goes into the coffers of the treasuries of the territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. According to a 2010 report by the Congressional Research Service, Puerto Rico raked in $371 million from the tax in 2008, while the U.S. Virgin Islands received almost $100 million. The New York Times reported in 2010 that the origin of the tax dates back nearly a century:http:

//www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/01/02/168466645/rum-cliff-and-other-close-shaves-in-the-tax-spending-deal